Distinguished Research Paper Award (August 2007), Japanese Association for Research in Testing (JART), for “International comparisons of mathematical thinking skills in the TIMSS-R” (Tatsuoka et al., 2006).

Appointed member of Graduate Faculty of College of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University, April 1994

HUDM 5058: Choice and decision making

Prerequisite: HUDM 4122 or equivalent. Surveys quantitative models of individual decision making, from the introduction of the notion of "utility" by Daniel Bernoulli through current models such as Tversky and Kahnemans "Prospect Theory." The focus is on psychological or descriptive models of how people make decisions, although methods of rational decision analysis are briefly discussed.